A lot of people are hoping that the upcoming Windows 8 update, codenamed Windows Blue, will bring back the traditional Start Menu and get rid of the new Modern UI as a part of the daily desktop computing experience. Naturally that won’t be happening, but there are lots of other neat things that we can [...]
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Apple’s latest update to OS X has brought with it an upgraded Boot Camp utility. This will allow anybody using version 10.8.3 to install the 64-bit version of Windows 8 as a dual boot option on their Mac. Boot Camp 5 is also the first time that Apple has chosen to drop support for 32-bit [...]
Recent reports seem to indicate that the Windows development team has completed the first milestone build for Windows 8’s first big upgrade. This update has been dubbed Windows Blue and the milestone we’re hearing about appears to be the halfway point in its development schedule. At this rate it is expected to be finalized and [...]
A recent press release from the United States Department of Defense announced that they had already begun the transition to Windows 8. Microsoft has been awarded a three year long, $617 milllion license agreement covering their latest generation of products. This is especially notable as being the least expensive contract Microsoft has ever offered the [...]
About this time last year we were still forming first impressions of Windows 8 based on the extremely rough Developer’s Preview release that Microsoft debuted not too long before. It was difficult to use, hardly functioned on most computers if you could get it installed at all, and already signaled enough of a departure from [...]
Nobody really expects Windows 8 to be able to sidestep the issue of software piracy. It doesn’t matter how secure your operating system is or how restrictive an environment seems to be, somebody is working hard to crack the protections. As was inevitable, it has now become possible to manipulate Windows Store apps in a [...]
It appears that Valve, owners of the most popular gaming platform to have hit the PC market thus far, has decided it’s time to expand. They will be releasing their own console before the end of next year. The “Steam Box” as it is colloquially referred to is basically going to be a PC built [...]
The Windows 8 interface, formerly known as Metro, relies heavily on the new Live Tiles that can be found on the Start screen. There is nothing quite so obviously revolutionary about Windows 8 as the way these are used. Practically every complaint and much of the praise that Microsoft has gotten over the changes to [...]
The Microsoft Surface tablet is going to be in use by the end of this week, but opinions are divided over whether it has a strong shot. We’ve been over the numbers comparing the Surface and the iPad in terms of their hardware already. Microsoft’s offering has the iPad 2 beat without a doubt, while [...]
